Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.